ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR VEHICLE

An electric machine, including a housing, a rotor which includes a rotor shaft and a rotor laminated core, a directly cooled stator which includes a stator laminated core, an annular gap configured between the rotor laminated core and the stator laminated core, and a sleeve-like wall element disposed in the annular gap, wherein the wall element abuts the stator with its outer surface and seals the stator against the rotor, wherein the housing is configured in a pot-like manner such that it is permanently or tightly closed on a first axial side by a bottom wall at least radially overlapping the stator and is open on an opposite second axial side and can be closed there via a lid, and a seal is disposed in a region of each axial end or each axial side of the wall element.